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Oliver Simmons oliversimmo at gmail.com
Tue Apr 27 20:37:44 BST 2021
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 18:58, Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane at sources.org> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 07:40:37PM +0200,
ew.gemini <ew.gemini at nassur.net> said:
I'm amazed that gemini attracts youngsters as well. Good on you!
Yes, this is important for outreach. Some Gemini fans advertise Gemini
with a reference to Gopher. However, Gopher means nothing for the
young people. Using Gopher as a starting point to describe Gemini is a
bit like explaining the DNS by saying it is "the phonebook of the
Internet", as if young people knew what a phonebook is!
The opposite isn't too good though, from the two videos that popped upon my YouTube homepage they seemed to describe it as a "replacementfor the web" and as if the aim was to take tracking for the web. WhichGemini is not.
In Gemini's current state, if you're hoping to get the stereotypicalperson of my age to join in, good luck. Not gonna happen.
Myself I learnt about Gemini via the OpenStreetMap Discord server(libre volunteer mapper community^).I can't remember exactly, but I was complaining about the web andsomeone gave a link to the Gemini Wikipedia page.
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-Oliver Simmons